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Organisation: Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)
Project name: Digital Eyes
Elevator pitch: Digital Eyes will help reduce isolation and maintain independence in older blind and partially sighted people, a group especially at risk of social isolation and limited mobility due to the additional challenge of sight loss, by introducing them to the practical and social benefits of using accessible tablets and smartphones to get online. We will offer training and support in managing finance, shopping online, organising travel, finding out what's going on locally and staying in touch with friends and family.
Project name: Circles of Care
Elevator pitch: Circles of Care is a service for connecting people, connecting communities and connecting care. It uses secure web-based technologies to enable everyone in an individual's Circle of Care to stay connected, thereby enabling the individual to easily stay in touch and access the information, services and support they need, when they need them.
Organisation: Sustrans Limited
Project name: Active Travel Champions
Elevator pitch: Active Travel Champions is a volunteering scheme toenable older people to make everyday journeys by foot or bike. This will increase mobility, build greater independence, improve health and aim to reduce isolation by increasing social interaction.
Organisation: London Borough of Camden
Project name: Creating a dementia-friendly Camden
Elevator pitch: We will work with a neighbourhood in Kilburn (in Camden) to understand what would make a friendly, accessible and connected community where people with dementia feel included, not isolated. Focussing at this "micro" level enables us to take an assets-based approach - our assets being people with dementia, citizens, buildings, infrastructure, business and charities, money and skills etc - to support older people and people with dementia to be active, influential citizens who are healthy and included within their communities.
Organisation: Age UK Lancashire
Project name: Journeying together: older people with dementia and their families
Elevator pitch: Age UK Lancashire (AUKL) and The Dukes Theatre will run a programme of films, theatre events and arts participation opportunities, open to the general public, but specifically adapted for older people with dementia and their family members. The aim of supporting people to continue their life journeys together, thereby reducing loneliness and social isolation, will be backed by practical measures such as the development of new types of transport schemes and adaptations to the setting.
Organisation: Tottenham Hotspur Foundation
Project name: THF Activators
Elevator pitch: Tottenham Hotspur Foundation (THF) will recruit and develop a team of twenty Activators both male and female, who are retired sports, health, army, navy or police professionals, who will support 100 isolated in-active older people to access existing sports and social opportunities across Enfield. The referrals will be made by the Enfield Council Adult Social Care team, local older people organisations, Enfield Home Support Network and through self -referrals via new methods of engagement.
Project name: The Golden Games
Elevator pitch: A national sporting festival for people aged over 60, held over one week in the summer of 2014 in Gateshead, UK.
Organisation: Plunkett Foundation
Project name: Community Aprons
Elevator pitch: Community Aprons is aiming to develop a sustainable 'meals on wheels' service for older people in rural communities, which is entirely run by local people for local people. The approach is about enabling rural communities to support their own ageing residents, whilst at the same time, stimulate social activity within the community, and share and develop skills together.
Project name: Homesharing for older people - Safeguarded Lodging Solutions.
Elevator pitch: Uniitee is Safeguarded Lodging. It promotes, facilitates and manages homesharing between the older people in order to improve their quality of life through combatting loneliness, lack of support and financial pressures. Uniitee is lodging wrapped in a significant blanket of safeguarding and understanding of the challenges of later life.
Project name: Radio Club
Elevator pitch: Radio Club is a weekly live radio show where up to 15 older people are the weekly contributors. As Members of their Radio Club they talk about anything and everything, giving them a chance to chat, whilst creating great content for the listeners -as well as some radio stars of the future.
Organisation: The Fox and the Squid
Project name: The Fox and the Squid
Elevator pitch: The Fox and the Squid (FS) is a co-working café and intergenerational community that adequately coaches 65+ year old retirees during the transition phase from work to retirement. 65+ year-old retirees can supplement their pension by charging a small fee for mentoring younger entrepreneurs or organisations that innovate for the growing aging market.
Project name: Old Hands at Mud Pies etc.
Elevator pitch: Older people living in Deptford can develop their community networks and engage with children in play within the welcoming and supportive environment of a community run pop-up play shop.
Organisation: Online Centres Foundation
Project name: Baking with Friends
Elevator pitch: Baking with Friends' is an innovative and fun way to link two generations together by swapping skills and making new connections; 40 older people who are alone or who experience loneliness but have a love for baking will inspire 40 younger people to bake things from scratch. In return, the younger people who are keen to try volunteering - some, for the first time - will inspire older people about the transforming effect of technology and the internet. Through sharing, meeting (and eating!) we will showcase a fantastic way to reduce isolation in older people and bridge both the generational and digital divides.
Organisation: The Reading Agency
Project name: Digital Reading Groups
Elevator pitch: The Reading Agency proposes a digital reading scheme (Digital Reading Groups) which offers older people an innovative online and real-world way both to connect with each other, family and friends across generations, and discover the enjoyment of reading to help counter isolation and loneliness. Isolated and visually impaired older readers will be identified with charity partners to participate in the programme.
Organisation name: Bexley Accessible Transport Scheme
Project name: Bexley Out and About Car Club
Elevator pitch: We envisage an accessible social car club for the elderly, which allows them to travel safely door to door via safe, affordable and accessible transport to assist them in leading the lives they wish for themselves, be that attending social appointments, health checks or general day to day getting around. The club will be run predominately using volunteers providing an enriching experience for both the volunteer and service user at the best possible value. We hope that this project can be sustainable from its own income and can be scaled up in the future to provide accessible low cost transport for other vulnerable client groups in Bexley and its surrounding neighbourhoods.
Organisation name: Magic Lantern Film Club
Project name: Silver Screen
Elevator pitch: Taking our pop-up cinema experience into care homes to create celebratory social events, facilitated by student and retired volunteers. Cinema triggers memories that can reaffirm identity and encourage social connections.
Organisation name: Age UK Exeter
Project name: Tools Company
Elevator pitch: Commonly, older men forge friendship through work and retirement can bring isolation and loneliness - disability only adds to this. Tools Company will use donated tools and Volunteer Buddies to give older men with complex needs a chance to reconnect with meaningful, practical activity.
Organisation name: The After Work Club
Project name: The After Work Club
Elevator pitch: Men are particularly at risk of losing self-esteem and becoming socially isolated as they move from full-time work into retirement, but they also have a lifetime's experience to give. We are building a task force of retired men who use their skills to make positive changes in the wider community and by doing so reclaim a sense of personal value and purpose, reduce their risk of social isolation and
equip themselves to be better able to face the challenges of ageing.
Organisation name: Fair Shares Gloucestershire
Project name: Well Timed
Elevator pitch: To support older people who are isolated due to recent bereavement or new caring responsibility's through the mutual exchanges of Fair Shares Time Bank, developing social interaction and strong supportive bonds with the community around them.
Organisation name: Age UK Cheshire East
Project name: Digital Doorstep
Elevator pitch: Digital Doorstep seeks to connect isolated older people with time-poor volunteers in their communities by recreating the types of neighbourhood exchange that traditionally took place from backyard to backyard, across garden fences and on doorsteps using freely available, hyper-local online social networks.
Organisation name: Stonewall Housing
Project name: One Small Step
Elevator pitch: Lack of family, loss of friends and loved ones, a dispersed community and fear of discrimination and abuse mean many older LGBT people are increasingly isolated, scared, alone and feeling trapped. We want to train a team of volunteers across London to be ready to respond and help them in often small, sometimes big, day-to-day tasks that will make their day.
Project name: NANA's comfort food café
Elevator pitch: NANA is a comfort food and community cafe run by older ladies from the local area. For older ladies it's a chance to get out the house, meet new people, and put a lifetime worth of skills to good use, and for everyone else it's a place to enjoy proper hearty home cooked food at a reasonable price.
Organisation name: West Midlands Special Needs Transport and Polly's Kitchen
Project name: Wheels to Meals
Elevator pitch: 'Wheels to Meals' is a home from home service for older people who usually stay in alone on their own or find it difficult to get out and about. With 'Wheels to Meals' they will be transported door to door, to eat fresh home cooked food, meet new people and make friends.
Organisation name: North Bristol Advice Centre
Project name: The Golden Gym
Elevator pitch: Our aim is to build understanding of positive ageing amongst older and elderly people in Lockleaze, in order to create a ripple effect in the community, with people learning to age in a new way. Older volunteers will be linked up with socially isolated elderly people and together they will increase their sense of connection, get more mobile and engage with activities that build resilience and foster wellbeing.
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